Vector threw Espio into the bathroom; Slamming the door behind him. Espio knew there was no use in fighting Vector, he would just end up getting hurt more. He looked around trying to assess the situation, considering Vector had never taken him to the bathroom.

"W…What are you going to do?" Espio stuttered, cowering away from Vector as he put in a bath plug and turned the tap on. Espio's eyes shrunk when he noticed the steam coming from the water and could feel his own body tighten up, already guessing what Vector would do. Vector stretched his arms up, glaring at Espio.

"Don't even fucking try to leave." Espio nodded in fear; He knew it was pointless trying, so all his mind was thinking was if there was any way to stop Vector through speaking to him. "Stand up. NOW." Espio grabbed by the towel rack to help him stand up and winced at the newly found pain in his shoulder from when Vector threw him. "Good boy…"

The chameleon felt his drunk friend grab by his shirt and rip it off him with ease: When Vector was drunk his strength seemed to increase. "Take off the rest of your clothes." Espio sobbed; He realised that if he wore his clothes the pain could've been less in some places, but took off his trousers and shoes sobbing. "EHEM." Vector poked Espio's underwear. Espio winced just thinking about the pain that would come to his dick.

"Vector please…" But Vector didn't let him finish, he pushed Espio onto the side of the bath and made him sit on the ledge while he pulled down Espio's underwear.

Espio's eyes were fixed on the tap when Vector turned it off, he could feel the heat from the steam on his face. He felt Vector grab by his tail and pull it into the water slowly.

"A-AH OH MY GOD VECTOR S-STOOOOP!" Espio screamed as he felt his tail being yanked into the boiling hot water. Tears began to swell up as he felt his tail burning up, he tried to stand up but Vector's grip was so strong it just pulled him closer to the very deep water.

"W-WAAAHHH! PLEASE STOP!"

A white bat dropped her grocery bag as she walked past the chaotix's house. The screams pierced into her very sensitive ears. Her aqua eyes slowly diverted to the house, realising the scream came from Espio. "What the…" Rouge muttered, mind flashing back to something Shadow told her this morning.

' "I'm scared he'll hurt him" Shadow muttered, sitting on Rouge's sofa "again." Rouge turned to Shadow, blinking in confusion.

"What? Who are you talking about?" Shadow shook his head and looked out the window, sighing day dreamily.

"Nothing. No one. Sorry." '

She then realised Shadow and Espio must've been together the night before as they were all drinking together. "Is Shadow talking about Espio…?" She asked herself aloud, stomping towards the agency. "Espio?"

She looked around downstairs but couldn't find anyone. However, she felt the air was warm and panted. "It's fucking boiling…"

"A-AHHH NO VECTOR GO AWAY!" She covered her ears as a loud bashing noise was heard and headed up the stairs.

Looking around, she noticed and immense amount of steam coming from the bathroom so headed towards it. "Guys whats going o-ESPIO!"

Vector had his hands wrapped around Espio's neck, casually bashing Espio's head in and out of the water. Rouge noticed the blisters, bruises and burns forming on his face and tail and stomped up to Vector. "What DO you think you're doing mister?" The crocodile jumped in shock and let go of Espio, who quickly got out of the water gasping and trying to breathe. Vector slurred some speech, which Rouge could barely understand. "Oh you're drunk, so you think it's ok then?" She hissed, kicking Vector in the face.

The crocodile grunted in pain when his head slammed against the wall, and Rouge put one finger into the water. Which was removed almost immediately with a yelp coming out of her mouth. She looked around the room and picked up a towel, putting it around Espio like a dress. She then proceeded to pick him up and fly away before Vector got the chance to reach her. She looked down at the chameleon who sighed in relief as they left the house; breathing heavily and coughing. "Espio are you ok…?" Rouge asked concerned, noticing half his face had turned a reddish colour. "Do you need to go hospital Espio?" The chameleon shook his head slowly and Rouge decided that it was because he didn't want Vector getting in trouble. "Well I'm taking you to my place ok?" Espio closed his eyes and Rouge moaned as she felt his weight get heavier. "Great he fell asleep."

Despite this, she still flew him back to her place with only a little bit of trouble. She stepped down and kicked the door open, seeing it was already half open. "Knuckles!"

The red echidna looked up at her, smiling, but then looked down at Espio and his eyes widen and his smile was turned upside down. "Holy shit! What the hell happened to Es!" Knuckled asked, throwing his book aside and jumping off the sofa. He walked over to her, took Espio from her and scanned his body. "His tail and face…They're really burnt badly, good thing you told me to buy that burning cream last week."

Rouge watched Knuckles place her frail friend on the sofa and walked over to Knuckles. "What happened to him anyway?" Knuckles asked, raising an eyebrow at Rouge. The bats ear drooped; She didn't know whether to tell Knuckles or not. She could tell from her conversation with Shadow she shouldn't have found out and also Knuckles was a very hot-headed character and could've made the situation much worse. "I'm not sure, I just saw him burnt and screaming in pain, so I went to get him…Could he stay here?" She asked with uncertainty, because she knew the echidna was just tell her to take him back home if she didn't ask.

"I guess he can sleep on the sofa, should I go get the cream?" Rouge nodded and waited for Knuckles to leave the room before dialling a certain black and red hedgehog.

Shadow looked over at his phone, sighed, and answered it. "Hello?" He yawned, looking back at his TV.

"Shadow uh…It's about Espio." He noticed Rouge's voice was almost a whisper "You…I guess you were talking about him when you were talking about someone hurting some one else." Shadow raised an eyebrow and turned off the television.

"Explain how you know."

"Well uh, I was walking home and heard him scream, I ran in to find Vector attempting to drown him in boiling water! His whole face and his tail are blistered!"

"My shit…You haven't told knucklehead have you?"

"Nono, I wanted to tell you first. What should I do with him?"

Shadow stood up and grabbed for his coat, glaring at the door. "I'll be there." Rouge tried to reply in argument, but Shadow had already hung up. She turned to Espio whom's eyelid opened ever so slightly. She smiled at him in reassurance, who tried to smile back.

The echidna came back down with some black pyjamas and a pot of cream on top of it and looked at Rouge. "I guess you can dress him…"

"Me? I think you should! You both have wieners!"

"But you already saw it! I don't wanna see his cock!" Espio's eyes looked over at Rouge, then Knuckles, Then Rouge again. Then the door. A small blush was able to cross his face as he glanced over at a black hedgehog frowning at them with his arms folded.

"Geez, I'll do it." He announced, walking over to Espio and looking at his face. He sat down on the end of the sofa looking up at his two shocked friends. "Well? Do you want to watch?"

"N-Nah i'm fine thanks." Rouge laughed, walking up with Knuckles. Espio blushed more when he felt Shadow grab by his towel and pull it off him, he tried to move but all that came was a stinging sensation. He winced.

Shadow opened the cream and dabbed it on his fingers.

"Don't worry Espio, It'll be ok.